SNAPE the coward?

[carolynwhite2]

No: HPFGUIDX 118133


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "M.Clifford" <Aisbelmon at h...> 
wrote:
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "chrusotoxos" <heos at v...> 
> wrote:
>  
> > My guess is that JKR voluntarily misled us into considering 
> Karkaroff as a coward, and therefore 'the coward'. She described 
him 
> as a coward so many times only to be sure that when we'd see the 
> word 'coward' again we'd have a Pavlovian thing and 
> bark: 'Karkaroff'! But what if Voldemort sees SNAPE as  the coward, 
> and Karkaroff as the traitor? 
> 
> 
> Valky:
> Hello Chrusotoxos welcome to the group!
> WOW what an awesome insightful post!!!
> HELLO listmembers! OVER HERE!!!!! Why are you guys not answering 
> this? 
> I am impressed, you are the first person I have seen with this 
> theory, you original, you. 
> I completely see your sense, utterly. 


Erm...you are joking Valky?

The idea was first mentioned back in July 2000, see this old Yahoo 
Club message:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups-Archives/message/3797

It has been discussed very extensively at regular intervals since 
then, see:

15274, 15775
17331, 17575
18236
19935
22922, 22959

just for starters. Much of the early debate about Snape's status/DE 
or not was pulled together in this FP:

http://www.hpfgu.org.uk/faq/snape.html

Not that the subject is not worth discussing again, and endlessly, 
but worth looking up past arguments first.

Carolyn